Statistics

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, took an in-depth look at what…

Brian Ball and M. E. J. Newman analyzed friendship data from a high…

Fox News tried to show the change in the top tax rate if…

Data science: tools vs. craft. It takes more than a program to do something useful.

Carnegie Mellon statistics professor Cosma Shalizi considers the differences and similarities between statistics…

If you want to learn visualization, you should learn data. To learn data,…

Derek Thompson for The Atlantic on how retail uses our numeric biases to…

Kevin Drum on data is or data are:
Now, I know that lots…

Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, explored the geographic differences in language…

The Mitt Romney campaign put this venn diagram up a few days ago,…

The odds of getting pregnant after a certain time trying are surprisingly hard…

The flood. The avalanche. The tsunami. Drowning in data. For the past few…

Hooktheory, a system for learning to write music, analyzed 1,300 popular songs for…

Tips for Grad Students in Statistics. Oh, now they tell me.

In an article for Significance Magazine, economists Barry Reilly, Neil Rickman and Robert…

The newest episode of This American Life is on the game of Blackjack.…

MIT Technology Review profiles the Facebook Data Science Team, described as a gathering…

Many want to get rid of the American Community Survey, a Census program…

After noticing the Obama campaign was sending variations of an email to voters,…

Screw the sword swallowing and giant screen of moving bubbles. Just get Rosling…